7 comments

  • flopsamjetsam 10 hours ago
    From the GitHub page:

    > It is a Gameboy Advance from a parallel universe where RISC-V existed in 2001. A love letter to the handheld consoles from my childhood, and a 3AM drunk text to the technology that powered them.

    • jihadjihad 9 hours ago
      Thank you to the author for writing a GitHub page in 2026 that is entirely devoid of emoji.
      • LukeShu 8 hours ago
        I mean no disrespect to Luke Wren, but he did not write it in 2026; he wrote it in 2018-2021. :)
      • tough 9 hours ago
        on the other hand having emoji on the readme is a great signal of llm-slop on my radar
        • jstanley 2 hours ago
          Isn't that the same hand?
      • lnxg33k1 1 hour ago
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  • mithro 51 minutes ago
    The design was taped out on the first wafer.space run (see https://github.com/wafer-space/ws-run1) but I have not heard if it actually worked or not.
  • bananaboy 9 hours ago
    Oh this is Luke Wren’s work. He’s an ASIC design engineer at Raspberry Pi. Amazing project, I love it!
    • LukeShu 8 hours ago
      I think "ASIC design" engineer is under-selling him--he's working on their CPU cores too!
      • bananaboy 7 hours ago
        Haha yeah I just went by his LinkedIn title
  • wewewedxfgdf 8 hours ago
    This guy also designed DVI/HDMI from RP2040:

    https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI

    • LukeShu 8 hours ago
      He works at Raspberry Pi, and designed the Hazard3 RISC-V core that is at the heart of the RP2350--although he did Hazard3 in his spare time. It's actually a fork of the "Hazard5" core that he designed for the RISCBoy.
  • joshu 10 hours ago
    i love the "hardware from an alternate universe" projects.
  • LukeShu 8 hours ago
    I'm surprised to see that it's OK that he has opensource AHB/APB stuff in it--I'd avoided learning them too much about them assuming that they were ARM proprietary.
    • bri3d 7 hours ago
      AMBA has been an open standard for a really long time, I think maybe since it was released?
  • iFire 11 hours ago
    Does RISCBoy run Godot Engine? How can I make RISCBoy run Godot Engine?